New Apprentice...

Cleo (-patra) eagerly follows any movements of the cursor, during the coloration process. Ready to catch unsuspecting prey, no matter how small (actually, the image section I was working on at that time, was magnified more than 8'000-times).

Exquisite Castaways...

...is Micronaut's second article for National Geographic has been published in the September issue 2010. The article is accessible in various languages.

Please feel free to browse the Photographer's gallery, if you wish to see more images of insect eggs.

honestly - it's a nice compliment...

What you see here is a cat trying madly to eradicate two waterdrops displayed on different prints. I just added reflexes to the surface of a waterdrop, scanned with an SEM, then printed out both frames and placed them on the floor to decide which frame works best... attentively observed by Cleopatra, which even checked under the sheets before finally giving up fully disappointed.